2000 in der Geschichte
420 Einträge
Ereignisse
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Final daily Peanuts comic strip.
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2000
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam is shot dead in Colombo.
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A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
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Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
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Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
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First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
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Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
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Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
Second Chechen War · Battle of Grozny (1999-2000) · Grozny · Chechnya · Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
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The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
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Zweiter Tschetschenienkrieg: Achtundvierzig russische Fallschirmjäger werden in einem Aufständischenangriff auf eine Wache in der Nähe von Ulus Kert getötet.
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The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
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Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
Uganda · Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin · Black Panther Party · H. Rap Brown · Georgia (U.S. state)
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Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
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A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
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United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft wird dafür verurteilt, gegen das US-amerikanische Wettbewerbsrecht verstoßen zu haben, indem es "einen drückenden Daumen" auf seine Konkurrenten hielt.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. · Microsoft · United States antitrust law
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2000
In einer Vor Sonnenaufgangs-Raid beschlagnahmen Bundesbeamte den sechsjährigen Elián González aus dem Haus seiner Verwandten in Miami.
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Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
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President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
Bill Clinton · Global Positioning System · United States Armed Forces
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The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
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Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
Ken Livingstone · London mayoral election, 2000 · Mayor of London
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Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
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Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
Second Chechen War · Chechens · Galashki ambush · Ingushetia
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Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Arsenal F.C. · Galatasaray S.K. (football) · 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots
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In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
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Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
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Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (except for the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 22 years after its invasion in 1978.
Liberation Day (Lebanon) · Israel · Shebaa farms · Operation Litani
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The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
Six-Day War (2000) · Kisangani · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda · Rwanda
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Die Vereinten Nationen definieren die Blauzeile als Grenze zwischen Israel und dem Libanon.
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President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
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Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa farms.
Israel · United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 · Lebanon · Shebaa farms
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Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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2000
The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
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Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
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Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
Vicente Fox Quesada · President of Mexico · National Action Party (Mexico) · Institutional Revolutionary Party
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EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
EADS · Aérospatiale-Matra · DaimlerChrysler Aerospace · Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA
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Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
Concorde · Air France Flight 4590 · Charles de Gaulle Airport
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Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
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The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
Russian Navy · Russian submarine Kursk (K-141) · Kursk submarine disaster · Barents Sea · Military exercise
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Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
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Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
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Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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Microsoft releases Windows ME.
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The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
MI6 · Secret Intelligence Service · SIS Building · 2000 MI6 attack · RPG-22
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Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
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The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
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Al-Aqsa-Intifada: Ariel Sharon besucht die Al-Aqsa-Moschee, die den Juden als Tempelberg in Jerusalem bekannt ist.
Al-Aqsa Intifada · Ariel Sharon · Al-Aqsa Mosque · Temple Mount · Jerusalem
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Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
Belgrade · Serbia · Slobodan Milošević · Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević
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NASA startet STS-92, die 100. Space-Shuttle-Mission, mit der Raumfähre Discovery.
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The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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Laurent Gbagbo übernimmt als Präsident von Côte d'Ivoire nach einem Volksaufstand gegen Präsident Robert Guéï.
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Die Sojus TM-31 startet, bringt die erste ständige Besatzung zur Internationalen Raumstation. Seitdem ist die ISS kontinuierlich besetzt worden.
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Singapore Airlines Flug 006 stürzt bei der Landung in Taipeh ab und tötet 83 Menschen.
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The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
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Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
United States presidential election, 2000 · Bush v. Gore · George W. Bush
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
Drug Enforcement Administration · Lysergic acid diethylamide · William Leonard Pickard · Missile silo · Wamego, Kansas
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Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
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Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
Philippines · Manny Villar · Philippine President · Joseph Estrada
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A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
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Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
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The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
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George W. Bush wird von Katherine Harris als Sieger der Wahlmännerstimmen Floridas bestätigt und gewinnt daraufhin die Präsidentschaftswahl der Vereinigten Staaten, obwohl er im nationalen Popular vote verlor.
George W. Bush · Katherine Harris · United States presidential election, 2000
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The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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Die Leninistische Guerilla-Einheiten der Türkischen Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei/Leninistische attackieren ein Büro der Nationalistischen Bewegungspartei in Istanbul, Türkei, und töten einen Menschen sowie verletzen drei.
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist · Nationalist Movement Party · Istanbul · Turkey
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Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
Berühmte Geburten
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Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
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Kristian Kostov, Russian/Bulgarian singer-songwriter
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Jace Norman, American actor
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Jackie Evancho, amerikanische Sängerin
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Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer
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Lino Facioli, Austro-Brazilian-English Actor
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Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
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Princess Salma bint Abdullah, Jordanian princess
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Taahira Butterfield, Bermudian athlete
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Willow Smith, amerikanische Sängerin, Schauspielerin und Tänzerin
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Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter
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Auli'i Cravalho, Hawaiian-American actress and singer.
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Baby Ariel , American social media vlogger and singer.
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Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater
Berühmte Todesfälle
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Colin Vaughan, australisch-kanadischer Journalist und Aktivist (geb. 1931)
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Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
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Patrick O'Brian, English author and translator (b. 1914)
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Spyros Markezinis, Greek lawyer and politician, 170th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1909)
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Tom Fears, Mexican-American football player and coach (b. 1922)
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Kumar Ponnambalam, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
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Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
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Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
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Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer and academic (b. 1915)
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Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
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Sam Jaffe, amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Produzent (geb. 1901)
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Betty Archdale, English-Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1907)
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Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911)
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Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
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Marc Davis, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1913)
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Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
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Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
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Georges-Henri Lévesque, kanadisch-dominikanischer Priester und Soziologe (geb. 1903)
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Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
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Philip Jones, English trumpet player and educator (b. 1928)
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Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
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Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, Bahá’í Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (b. 1910)
Rúhíyyih Khanum · Bahá’í Faith · Hands of the Cause · Shoghi Effendi
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Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
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Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (b. 1913)
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Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)
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Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (b. 1916)
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Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (b. 1915)
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Kathleen Hale, English author and illustrator (b. 1898)
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A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (b. 1912)
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Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1930)
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Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
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Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
Carl Albert · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
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Phil Walters, American racing driver (b. 1916)
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Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947)
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Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)
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Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
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Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1949)
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Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (b. 1922)
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Roger Vadim, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
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Tom Landry, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
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Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (b. 1922)
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Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1914)
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James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (b. 1921)
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John Leake, English soldier (b. 1950)
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Angus MacLean, Canadian commander and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
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Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
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Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
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Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911)
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
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Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
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Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
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Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager (b. 1915)
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George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
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Dennis Danell, amerikanischer Gitarrist (geb. 1961)
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Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1904)
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Hermann Brück, deutscher-schottischer Physiker und Astronom (geb. 1905)
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Michael Noonan, neuseeländisch-australischer Autor und Drehbuchautor (geb. 1921)
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Ta-You Wu, chinesischer Physiker und Akademiker (geb. 1907)
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Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (b. 1963)
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John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
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Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
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Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
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Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
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Thomas Ferebee, amerikanischer Colonel und Pilot (geb. 1918)
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Pavel Prudnikau, belarussischer Dichter und Schriftsteller (geb. 1911)
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Michael Starr, kanadischer Richter und Politiker, 16. kanadischer Minister für Arbeit (geb. 1910)
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Carlos Velázquez, puerto Ricanischer Pitcher (geb. 1948)
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Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909)
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Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
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Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Pakistani physician and author (b. 1920)
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Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
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Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
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Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
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Alex Comfort, English physician and author (b. 1920)
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George Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
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Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1942)
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Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905)
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Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (b. 1915)
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Giani Chet Singh, Indian scholar (b. 1902)
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Terence McKenna, amerikanischer Botaniker und Philosoph (geb. 1946)
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Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
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Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
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František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)
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Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
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Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
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Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
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Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (b. 1916)
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Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (b. 1910)
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Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
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August R. Lindt, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
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Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
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Edward Gorey, American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)
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Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
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Lucien Le Cam, French mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
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David Merrick, American director and producer (b. 1911)
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Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
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Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (b. 1916)
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Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
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Poul Hartling, Danish politician, 36th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
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Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1926)
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Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
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John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal (b. 1920)
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Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
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Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
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Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
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Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (b. 1920)
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
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Pita Amor, Mexican poet and author (b. 1918)
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Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
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Henry Nicols, American activist (b. 1973)
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Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
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Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
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René Muñoz, Cuban-Mexican actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
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Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
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Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
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Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
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Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
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Donald Coggan, English archbishop (b. 1909)
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Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
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Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
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Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
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Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
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Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
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John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
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Mark R. Hughes, American businessman, founded Herbalife (b. 1956)
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Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
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Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
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Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
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Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
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Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch · Governor of Hong Kong
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Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921)
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George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
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Tex Beneke, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1914)
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Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936)
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Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)
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A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928)
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Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
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Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927)
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John Schlee, American golfer (b. 1939)
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Gerald James Whitrow, English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912)
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Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
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Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
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Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
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John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
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Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (b. 1917)
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Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930)
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Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
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Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
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Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and author (b. 1911)
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Jules Roy, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1907)
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Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
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Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
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Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (b. 1911)
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Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972)
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Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
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Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
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Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (b. 1913)
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Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
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Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
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Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
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Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
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Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, polnischer Journalist und Autor (geb. 1919)
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Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1911)
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Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
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Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
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Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
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Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1913)
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Robert Runcie, English archbishop (b. 1921)
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Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1908)
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Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (b. 1914)
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Pepo, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
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William Roscoe Estep, American historian and academic (b. 1920)
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Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
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Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925)
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Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
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Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (b. 1916)
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Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
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Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
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Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
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Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1925)
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Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
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John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
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Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
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Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
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William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1908)
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2000
Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (b. 1921)
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2000
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920)
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2000
Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (b. 1910)
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2000
Alec Guinness, English actor (b. 1914)
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2000
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
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2000
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2000
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2000
Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
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2000
Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (b. 1955)
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2000
Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
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2000
Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
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2000
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2000
Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
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2000
Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
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2000
Bunny Austin, englischer Tennisspieler (geb. 1906)
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2000
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2000
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2000
Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
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2000
John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (b. 1932)
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2000
Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1964)
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2000
Carl Barks, American author and illustrator (b. 1901)
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2000
Frederick C. Bock, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
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2000
Jack Nitzsche, American pianist, composer, and producer (b. 1937)
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2000
Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1955)
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2000
Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
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2000
Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
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2000
Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
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2000
Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
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2000
Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
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2000
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2000
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2000
Curt Siodmak, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
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2000
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2000
Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (b. 1942)
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2000
Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defense (b. 1918)
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2000
Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (b. 1929)
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2000
Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
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2000
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (b. 1921)
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2000
Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
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2000
Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (b. 1908)
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2000
Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
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2000
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2000
Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)
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2000
Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911)
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2000
Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
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2000
Jacques Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 35th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1915)
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2000
Leonid Rogozov, Russian physician and surgeon (b. 1934)
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2000
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2000
Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player and manager (b. 1947)
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2000
Carl Rowan, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
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2000
Raoul Berger, American attorney and law professor (b. 1901)
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2000
Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
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2000
Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1937)
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2000
Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
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2000
John Grant, English journalist and politician (b. 1932)
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2000
David Tonkin, Australian politician, 38th Premier of South Australia (b. 1929)
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2000
Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1947)
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2000
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2000
Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
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2000
Johanna Döbereiner, Brazilian agronomist (b. 1924)
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2000
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2000
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2000
Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
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2000
David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
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2000
Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
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2000
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2000
Luc-Marie Bayle, French historian, photographer, and painter (b. 1914)
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2000
Donald Dewar, Scottish lawyer and politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
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2000
Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
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2000
Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
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2000
Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964)
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2000
Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
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2000
Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
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2000
Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
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2000
Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)
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2000
Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
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2000
Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
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2000
Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
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2000
Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (b. 1925)
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2000
Yokozuna, amerikanischer Wrestler (geb. 1966)
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2000
Mochitsura Hashimoto, japanischer Kommandeur (geb. 1909)
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2000
Nejat Saydam, türkischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Drehbuchautor (geb. 1929)
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2000
Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
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2000
Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
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2000
Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1912)
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2000
Steve Allen, American actor, television personality, game show panelist, and talk show host (b. 1921)
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2000
Ring Lardner Jr., amerikanischer Journalist und Drehbuchautor (geb. 1915)
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2000
Kazuki Watanabe, japanischer Songwriter und Gitarrist (geb. 1981)
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2000
George Armstrong, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
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2000
Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
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2000
Jimmie Davis, amerikanischer Sänger-Songwriter und Politiker, 47. Gouverneur von Louisiana (geb. 1899)
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2000
Bibi Titi Mohammed, tansanischer Politiker (geb. 1926)
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2000
David Brower, American environmentalist, founded the Sierra Club Foundation (b. 1912)
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2000
L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (b. 1907)
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2000
Ingrid of Sweden (b. 1910)
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2000
Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1950)
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2000
Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian publisher and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1910)
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2000
Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (b. 1927)
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2000
Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (b. 1918)
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2000
Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, 171st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
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2000
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, 153rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
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2000
Sandra Schmitt, German skier (b. 1981)
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2000
Franck Pourcel, French conductor and composer (b. 1913)
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2000
Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
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2000
Robert Earl Davis, American hip-hop artist (b. 1971)
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2000
Ahmet Kaya, Turkish-French singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
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2000
Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
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2000
Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)
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2000
Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919)
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2000
Ernest Lluch, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1937)
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2000
Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
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2000
Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
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2000
Brian Rawlinson, English actor and playwright (b. 1931)
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2000
Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (b. 1917)
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2000
Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (b. 1932)
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2000
Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (b. 1924)
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2000
Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (b. 1922)
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2000
Ilmar Laaban, Estonian-Swedish poet and publicist (b. 1921)
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2000
Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (b. 1915)
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2000
Scott Smith, Canadian bass player (b. 1955)
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2000
Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
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2000
Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and educator (b. 1917)
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2000
Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (b. 1922)
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2000
Henck Arron, Surinamese banker and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname (b. 1936)
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2000
Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (b. 1920)
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2000
Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
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2000
Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
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2000
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
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2000
David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
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2000
George Montgomery, American actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
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2000
Ndabaningi Sithole, Zimbabwean militant leader, founded Zimbabwe African National Union (b. 1920)
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2000
Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
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2000
Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
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2000
Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915)
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2000
Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
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2000
Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)
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2000
Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (b. 1910)
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2000
John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
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2000
Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
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2000
Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor (b. 1909)
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2000
John Cooper, English businessman, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (b. 1923)
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2000
Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
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2000
Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (b. 1908)
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2000
Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
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2000
Adele Stimmel Chase, American sculptor and painter (b. 1917)
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2000
Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
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2000
Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (b. 1914)
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2000
José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
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2000
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966)